These bits may seem a bit stale to those of you who have been watching our SVN, as they were made in November 2010. Sorry it took so long to get released. A lot of testing and laziness were involved.

This version brings with it the usual assortment of core, graphics, and frontend fixes. Compatibility improvements are numerous, but there is a long way to go still.

We’re having a bit of difficulty making the OSX and NOSSE2(win32) builds. Please stay tuned if you’re into such things.

0.9.6 to 0.9.7 (r3493 to r3812)

General/Core:

• bug: fix a ton of old, broken cpu opcodes and CP15 logic
  
• bug: return Z1 and Z2 from TSC (fixes some touch logic)
  
• bug: gba slot save type detection improved
  
• bug: handle unusual rom headers more correctly
  
• bug: dont confuse motion pack commands with save memory commands
  
• bug: make cheat system a little less flaky and add AR 1.54 support
  
• bug: fix nondeterministic backup memory behaviour while rerecording
  
• bug: correct emulation of register accesses of wrong size and during powerdown
  
• bug: rewrite --cflash-path emulation
  
• bug: rewrite IPC/GX FIFO, IRQ flag generation, and wait-for-IRQ logics
  
• bug: rewrite RTC calendar handling; now supports years > 2038
  
• enh: auto-DLDI patching for homebrew
  
• enh: --gbaslot-rom=self mounts self.nds in slot2
  
• enh: more realistic exception handling
  
• enh: piano controller emulation
  
• enh: modular slot-1 system for exact emulation of homebrew cards

Graphics:

• bug: edge marking colors were wrong
  
• bug: handle some "invalid" vram configurations correctly
  
• bug: convert half of geometry engine to fixed point
  
• bug: fix sprite blend+fadein/fadeout
  
• bug: improve rasterizer shadows
  
• bug: fix main memory display DMA
  
• bug: fix some raster fx timing bugs
  
• enh: add a hack for improving some non-stencil shadows

Windows:

• bug: misc fixes and improvements to gpu viewer tools
  
• bug: sub screen layer display toggling fixed
  
• bug: fixes and improvements to ram watch, ram search, cheats list
  
• bug: fix start-paused commandline
  
• bug: fix memory leaks when sound disabled
  
• bug: improve load average calculators and add arm7 load average
  
• enh: background input support
  
• enh: add vsync option
  
• enh: support more knobs on joysticks
  
• enh: import cheats from R4 database
  
• enh: add xinput rumble for 360 pads

Linux/OSX:

• bug: crash less in recent roms list
  
• enh: Add horizontal screen layout and swap screen ability to gtk frontend (noodlebox)
  
• enh: Big improvement to joystick support, support complex configurations and multiple devices (noodlebox)